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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Interscalmium

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

INTERSCAL'MIUM. The space between thowl and thowl (scalmus) on the side of a vessel (Vitruv. i. 2. 4.); consequently, represented on the outside by the space between one oar, or oar-port, and another. The illustration (Interscalmium/1.1) is from an ancient Roman fresco painting discovered in the Farnese gardens.

  • Interscalmium/1.1
    Interscalmium/1.1

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